Tom Barton

A Cedar Rapids woman was being held on a $25,000 cash-only bond at the Linn County Jail on charges related to an armed robbery of a Hiawatha gas station and liquor store in June.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested last week after police say he attempted to persuade, entice, coerce or solicit a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old girl on a dating app into performing sexual acts.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's ruling dismissing a lawsuit challenging Cargill’s construction of a now-completed rail yard in southeast Cedar Rapids.

Providers in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Mason City, Oskaloosa and Sioux City will receive a total of over $10 million to expand or improve facilities and develop sober-living housing options.

During a conference call with reporters Thursday morning, Hinson, a Republican from Marion, advocated for passing “a clean CR,” addressing the debt ceiling, providing disaster relief and extending the farm bill to “give our farmers most needed aid.”

President-elect Donald Trump and his lawyers ramped up their legal campaign against news outlets, filing a lawsuit late Monday against renowned Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett.

Also, state says school for troubled boys reaches ‘substantial compliance’ with oversight

Cedar Rapids mail carrier and former school board member Dexter Merschbrock said Democrats need to rebuild trust with and prioritize the interests of working-class Iowans if they are going to reverse their political skid in Iowa.

Cournoyer, a Republican from LeClaire, is serving her second term in the Iowa Senate.

Jackie Hebert, whose father was killed in in Vietnam in 1966, said her father's medals were buried with him, and her mother, who came from West Berlin and barely spoke English, didn’t know she could request duplicate medals.

Ernie Topness, a 91-year-old Korean War veteran, recently retired, making him the second-longest serving mail carrier in the country.

Gov. Kim Reynolds in May signed into law a plan to overhaul and combine Iowa’s delivery system for mental and behavioral health services — which advocates hope will improve access for patients.

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst issued a more positive assessment on Monday after a second meeting with Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.

A mass removal of undocumented workers could lead to a tighter labor market in Iowa, higher wage rates and higher production costs, potentially leading to higher prices for goods and services, according to an Iowa State University economist.

Ernst declined Thursday to commit to supporting Hegseth, who faces allegations of sexual impropriety, financial mismanagement, public drunkenness and other personal misconduct.